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School

Children with epilepsy generally belong in mainstream classrooms. What matters is that the school knows — tell the class teacher and the office, provide a written seizure plan, and put the first-aid steps somewhere visible in the…

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Stigma

Many people with epilepsy say that exclusion from school, work and social life is harder to live with than the seizures themselves. Most of it rests on misinformation — that epilepsy is contagious, or a mental illness, or somethi…

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Training

We run epilepsy awareness and seizure first-aid sessions for schools, clinics, employers and community organisations. Most people freeze during a seizure simply because nobody ever showed them what to do — an hour of training fix…

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Normal life

Most people with epilepsy work, study, travel, have relationships and raise children. A diagnosis changes some practicalities — it does not decide what your life looks like. The Living well section covers everyday safety, school …

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